Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Departures (2009) | "
Doesn't quite justify the enormous plaudits heaped upon its shoulders, but a warm-hearted comedy-drama with its own likeably odd sensibility." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Examined Life (2009) | "
A fascinating introduction to the big issues in modern philosophy, presented with a pleasantly light touch." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 83%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
A fascinating documentary about a life lived on the cutting edge of technology, and the definitive film about the net's own coming-of-age." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Achieves the highly improbable by making one of the most exciting events of the 1960s look really boring." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Welcome () | "
A sensitive, low-key, touching drama about the complicated issues surrounding international displacement." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Alice in Wonderland (1951) | "
An enjoyable if rather pallid rendering of Carroll's classic tale." Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 73%
| Starsuckers (2009) | "
This provocative, proudly partisan but consistently entertaining doc is compulsory viewing not just for everyone working within the media, but for anyone who watches TV, reads the papers, surfs the net or has to walk down a city street." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| Made in Jamaica (2006) | "
Some great performances and a raw taste of life on the streets of Jamaica, but too ragged and rambling to explain why this music matters." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 37%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is a film with a chronic identity crisis and no clear idea where it's headed." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 57%
| Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) | "
A worthwhile doc about an unreported arm of the alt-rock industry." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
The strange power of those final moments - at once tender, tragic and triumphant - grant this unassuming drama about saying goodbye to Solo the status of a minor masterpiece played in an appropriately minor key." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| Swingers (1996) | "
One of the sharpest male-oriented comedies of the 1990s." Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
A deftly assembled, wry and touching self-portrait of Agnès Varda as both a filmmaker and an endearing, indomitable spirit." Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Three Miles North Of Molkom (2009) | "
The enjoyably sarky tone conceals a sympathetic and frequently very funny documentary." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 36%
| Je Veux Voir (2009) | "
An unconventional yet haunting documentary that shines a strange new light on life in modern Lebanon." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Shank (2009) | "
The raw power of the story isn't always very effectively harnessed but the level of conviction is certainly impressive." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
Wintour and her colleagues are well-dressed company, but what's really going on stays behind closed doors." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Fish Tank (2009) | "
A quietly intense, strikingly shot coming-of-age drama, Fish Tank establishes Andrea Arnold as a lyrical chronicler of marginalised Britain." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| Jetsam (2008) | "
A skilfully written and deftly controlled thriller that refuses to be bound by budget limitations, Jetsam marks Simon Welsford out as a potentially significant new director." Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Shooting Robert King (2009) | "
A fascinating, entertaining and skilfully assembled documentary about the messed up business of war reporting, and the messed up men who do it." Posted Aug 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Bandslam (2009) | "
Implausible, formulaic, too ponderous for young kids, not cool enough for teenagers and yet strangely hard to resist. File away under extremely guilty pleasure." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| Aliens in the Attic (2009) | "
This is one of those once-seen-immediately-forgotten enterprises which avoids anything memorable or imaginative in favour of fast, functional, charisma-free busy-ness." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 11%
| Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009) | "
Perez's film ought to be an hour-and-a-half of beery, dumb-ass fun. Instead it has the weary air of a genuinely disastrous disaster movie. Size, it seems, matters after all." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Beautiful Losers (2008) | "
An amiable portrait of the artist as a scruffy slacker, and a useful jumping off point for anyone interested in investigating some of the cultural issues that marked the 1990s and the start of the new millennium." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Kisses (2008) | "
A touching, tender coming-of-age drama which balances gritty realism with an intriguing sense of the fantastic." Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Soul Power (2009) | "
Brilliant archive footage and blistering live performances - an exhilarating concert film." Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| 35 Shots of Rum (2009) | "
Claire Denis has assembled a simple yet achingly touching little drama. On the surface it looks as if hardly anything's happening, but submit to the gently fluid style and it turns out everything is going on." Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Strawberry & Chocolate (1993) | "
A clear call for tolerance, deftly executed by a director for whom the personal and the political were indivisible." Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Cry-Baby (1990) | "
Cheerfully camp, terrifically enjoyable teen parody that ranks among Waters' best moments. Oh, and world -- meet Johnny Depp!" Posted Jun 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Looking for Eric (2009) | "
Funny, touching and cheerfully unlikely in every sense, this ranks among the great British filmmaker's most enjoyable films." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| Summer Scars (2008) | "
A smart, sharp British psycho-thriller." Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Accident () | "
Taut, dark, brilliantly acted - this autopsy on the emotional lives of the English intelligentsia is among Bogarde and Losey's greatest achievements." Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Pierrot Le Fou (1965) | "
An eye-poppingly vivid exercise in genre-busting filmmaking. Here is one of the most persistently intriguing directors of the 1960s at his most watchable and entertaining." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Everlasting Moments (2009) | "
A slow but perfectly pitched drama that tells its harsh story with touching tenderness, quiet sympathy and an absence of sticky sentiment. The time it demands is amply rewarded." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 53%
| Viva (2008) | "
Great retro design, but as comic satire this isn't so much soft-focus as out of focus." Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| French Film (2008) | "
Sacre bleu! C'est un perky British rom a la com avec un great self-mocking performance by Eric Cantona." Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
A brilliantly pitched exercise in droll comedy with a tender message about seizing the day." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Momma's Man (2008) | "
Azazel Jacobs' film is an enjoyably idiosyncratic tribute to his own eccentric family, and it adopts a fascinatingly novel approach to the strange anxieties of thirtysomething men." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 57%
| Delta (2008) | "
Don't expect to come away a whole lot wiser, but for its duration this film is mesmerising, mysterious and startlingly beautiful." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Helen (2008) | "
With its unusual blending of the formal and the mysterious, the intimate and the impressionistic, Helen is a film of quiet but deadly power." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 0%
| City Rats (2009) | "
A low budget drama by a writer and director both making their feature debut, it's an uneven but ambitious enterprise which, like its characters, never knows which way to turn, or how best to exploit its own strengths." Posted Apr 25, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The 400 Blows (1959) | "
François Truffaut's iconoclastic feature debut and one of the most enduring examples of the French New Wave." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| In Search Of Beethoven (2009) | "
A thoroughly researched and engagingly presented portrait of the composer." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Before I Forget (2008) | "
A sombre description of age and regret delivered with a deceptively light touch. Wry, tender, full of sympathy and wonderfully acted by Jacques Nolot." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| La Vie Moderne (2008) | "
A low-key but genuinely insightful journey through a vanishing way of life." Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Cherry Blossoms (2009) | "
A lyrical attempt to make sense of grief that appeals shamelessly to the heart rather than the head." Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Wonderful Town (2007) | "
Seductive yet unilluminating" Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Franklyn (2009) | "
McMorrow's ideas may be too damn bold and expansive for Franklyn to succeed on every level, but it's a striking debut from a writer-director unafraid to reach as high as he can." Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
Funny, tragic, brilliantly put together and eventually sweetly uplifting. This is the closest thing we're going to get to a sequel to This Is Spinal Tap." Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 73%
| Around the World in 80 Days (1956) | "
Thanks to its grand scale and great central performances by Niven and Cantinflas, the original fantastic voyage still holds up very respectably." Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
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